Please join us! The Seattle Commission for People with Disabilities is presenting, along with our friend and fiscal sponsor, the Alliance of People with Disabilities, a candidate forum on disability issues.
The forum is this Friday, October 13, from 3 PM - 8 PM in the Downtown Seattle Library. We have separate panels for each race: Seattle Mayor, Seattle City Attorney, Seattle Council Positions 8 & 9, and Seattle Port Commission Positions 1, 3 & 4. Timing, directions and parking information is on the flyer.
This is a first for us, but the Commission is on a roll. This year alone, Commissioners:
- Repealed the Seattle policy that allowed a subminimum wage paid to people with disabilities;
- Convinced Commissioners at the Port of Seattle to start the process to make SeaTac the "Most Accessible Airport in America";
- We were part of a successful $300 million lawsuit against the City of Seattle to built or fix thousands of curb cuts;
- We obtained a nearly $800,000 budget line item for CART service in every City Council and Committee meeting, along with captioning of Seattle Channel programming; and more.
- We have legislation proposed to allow caregivers or personal attendants free admission to museums, sporting events and other venues when accompanying a person with a disability;
- We have requested a budget line item so that victims of crime (all too often PWD) will not have to pay a fee to obtain a copy of the Seattle Police Department crime report;
- And we are engaged in six different transportation projects to improve mobility, pedestrian access, and wheelchair accessible taxi and vehicle policy.
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